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One of the best things about REAL Studio, is it's development community. I'd like to tell you about some of the most useful places to go for REAL Studio information and community involvement, and then I'll review some of the useful third party products for use with REAL Studio. First up is RBDEB zone, a site that I also run in addition to LogicalVue Software. RBDEB Zone is my REAL Studio blog. You'll find all kinds of sample code, free software, editorials, reviews and more. Be sure to check it out. The association of REALbasic professionals is an organization that focuses on REAL Studio developers, membership is fifty dollars, or one hundred dollars per year, and gets you discounts to a wide variety of REAL Studio related products. Additionally, the ARBP has a robust source code repository, discussion forums, blogs, and articles. ARBP also hosts periodic REAL Studio conferences. REAL Studio developer magazine has been publishing six issues a year, since it's inception in 2002. The magazine is one of the best places for learning the latest about REAL Studio. Each issue is chocked full of news, reviews, feature articles, and columns. I write the regular database column called Databases for REAL. One of the best places to mingle with fellow REAL Studio developers, is REAL Software discussion forums. There you'll find discussions about everything you could imagine that's related to REAL Studio. In addition to the forums, REAL Software also hosts a mailing list, affectionately called the Nug. On the mailing list, you'll find lots of long time REAL Studio users that love answering questions. Now let's talk about some third party add ons for REAL Studio. We use the Einhugur DateControl in our To Do application, but they also make many other controls including StyleGrid, TreeView, WindowSplitter, TaskBar, PictureButton, PictureEffects, encryption classes, graphics formats, spell checking, CalendarControl, TimeControl, and even more. At only two hundred dollars for the entire set the Einhugur controls are well worth the investment. MonkeyBread Software makes the largest collection of REAL Studio plugins. There plug ins add over 30,000 functions to REAL Studio, from new controls, to a variety of new methods and classes to help you get at platform specific features. The MonkeyBread plugins cost about 260 dollars for the entire set. They also sell other plugins such as Dyna PDF, for PDF creation, Track Director for graphs and charts, and an SQL plugin for connecting to a wide variety of SQL databases. Excel Software sells a collection of controls for REAL Studio called RbApp. The controls all written in REAL Studio itself, include RbEdit, RbView, RbGrid, RbChart, RbCommand, RbPalette, RbStringList, RbXML, RbHelp, and RbQuickLicense. RbApp sells for 295 dollars. The folks at Qedit make several useful REAL Studio controls, including a Source List, Listbox Library, Pill Button, Action Bar, and iTunes Stylist. The entire control library costs just 85 dollars. RS Report Designer is a great alternative to the reporting system built into REAL Studio. RS Report Designer gives you complete control over your report layout, and you can export reports to PDF. RS Report Designer costs 86 dollars. Formatting text control is a powerful replacement for the REAL Studio text area control. Formatted text control is essentially a mini word processor, written entirely in REAL Studio. The FTC is fast and powerful. It costs 150 dollars. Unihelp is a cross platform help viewer that can be embedded in your REAL Studio applications. It provides a slick window for displaying HTML help. Unihelp costs 50 dollars. That's it for my overview, of REAL Studio community sites, and REAL Studio third party add ons. I hope you find something useful.
| Course: | Real Studio |
| Author: | Paul Lefebvre |
| SKU: | 34190 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-77-1 |
| Release Date: | 2011-02-02 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 87 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |